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Facebook may have joined the DataPortability project. But only begrudgingly. According to an interview with the company’s CPO (Chief Privacy Officer) conducted recently by Juan Carlos Perez of IDG News Service, the social network, despite having sign...

Here’s another set of statistics recently released by the Internet research firm Compete that certainly does not jive with the breaking claim delivered today by Yahoo! of it’s greater-than-$44.6bn self-evaluation. Market share numbers for the top fiv...

The last 7 days have been filled with announcements large and small by the preeminent social networks on the Web. February 4 marked the launch of the MySpace Developer Platform, which the company hopes will repeat the success of Facebook’s own Web ap...

Maybe it's because spring is on the way in the Northern Hemisphere. Everyone seems to have acquisition love on their minds as of late. We've seen Microsoft-Yahoo!, rumors of Google stepping in to look at Yahoo!, and now, according to Brian Heater of ...

While Microsoft’s CEO occupies himself with the Yahoo! bid announced to the public late last week, some folks in Redmond are busy with other (and considerably smaller) projects. In particular, Microsoft’s Virtual Earth project. And more specifically,...

In case you had any doubts about it, OpenID has definitely proving to be the de facto standard for web identity. Many big names, including Google (through their Blogger service) and Yahoo announced their support for the standard, and now five big com...

This seems to be one of those days when you simply can't get rid of Google-related news. Ardent Googletracker Google Blogoscoped reports that Google News has a new feature: Local News. To try it out, go to news.google.com, scroll down a bit and enter...

Google has introduced an interesting new feature to its Google Apps suite of business applications. While the suite itself is the same as the "standard" version and includes Google Docs, Calendar, Talk, and a Start Page, Team Edition will automatical...

Social browser Flock is continuing to add support for more popular social networks, and today the company is announcing its upcoming support for MySpace. With the introduction of the MySpace Developer Platform earlier this week, Flock is ready to jum...

Facebook is modifying the notification system yet again. As usual, the application developers will be the ones experiencing the bulk of the change as a result of the changes made. The result for users? Less notifications per application - or at least...

Despite Google's troubled standing in China in regards to leadership for issues like privacy policies, and the company's losing battle to Baidu, Google is heading to China with a free digital music market. The Wall Street Journal reports that Google ...

Fuser came out with a MySpace killer, albeit as a Facebook application. This particular app worked by letting you see your MySpace updates from within your Facebook profile. That includes your MySpace comments, messages, and bulletin announcements, d...

The recently launched Korean version of YouTube has failed to create a big impact in the local video sharing scene, Korea Times reports. Internet traffic monitoring company Rankey reported a surge of traffic (382,000 daily visitors) to YouTube Englis...

Crowdsourced QA service provider uTest made waves late last year when the company raised $1.7 million in funding. Nearly two months later, I got a chance to speak with uTest's CEO, Doron Reuveni, to see what the next steps would be, now that the comp...

While we all stand by and anxiously watch the train wreck that is Yahoo, it looks to be more and more likely that the #1 singular Internet portal will take Microsoft's bid for $44.6 billion. Despite all appearances, however, perhaps Yahoo is seeking ...

Google Senior VP and Chief Legal Officer David Drummond took some time this fine Super Bowl Sunday morning to blog in passive-aggressive opposition to the Microshoo! maneuver, revealed to the public Friday. (He rhetorically claimed that Microsoft cou...

This morning, Google’s Senior VP of Corporate Development and Chief Legal Officer, David Drummond, published a short post on the company’s official blog. It is a response to last week’s motion by Microsoft for ownership of Yahoo!. Readers will find t...

We’re just hours away from Super Bowl kickoff today, where the New York Giants and the New England Patriots are scheduled to battle it out for the Lombardi trophy inside the stadium of the University of Phoenix, located in the sunny gray-and-gloomy (...

It’s the morning after the storm. The waters seemed to have calmed somewhat. The journalists and analysts have all tired of hacking their keyboards with worn, calloused digits after a mad scramble for revealing information and insight into the minds ...

If you're completely spent from Facebook overload, and are tired of all those requests you get for joining groups, adding applications and attending events in cities you don't even live in, you'll rejoice at the addition of a new option called "Ignor...

With the recent news that the makers of "Scrabble" were moving to shut down Scrabulous, the favorite game of Facebook employees, people are going to be looking to install some other games on their profiles. We've gone around and found you some other ...

Here's an interesting decision in a UK domain name dispute. MySpace just won the domain name myspace.co.uk, although the name was first registered 6 years before MySpace existed. You can't really argue that some imposter stole a domain that was right...

...the answer is this: LEGO turns 50 today. The actual company has been around quite a bit longer than that, but today is the day when the patent for the LEGO brick was filed. I'll leave it up to Valleywag to conjure some totally unconfirmed rumors a...

Numerous people have said that Facebook is like "a walled garden"; in that things do go in, but nothing comes out. It would appear that they made the first step last night in "coming out," as it were. Nick O'Neill of AllFacebook is reporting today th...

Never one to rest on their laurels, Google Operating System alerts us to some changes Google has made to their popular RSS app, Google Reader. The time stamp you've always seen in the reader is the time that Google indexed the article, not the time i...

There are a few important things to consider when going global with your website, and among the most important of all is to integrate your site with the local culture as much as possible. That's one reason that translations are so important, and that...

When we first wrote up International Delete Your MySpace Account Day back on the 21st, it seemed like a small "ha ha, look what some blogger said! Isn't he cute?" story. Since then it has taken the tech blogosphere by storm, and it got me to wonderin...

Not only was Scrabulous the favorite way for Facebook employees to whittle away their work hours, but it was a favorite application to some 600,000 daily active users. The game that mimics Hasbro and Mattel's Scrabble game has indeed become too popul...

Did you know you can sell things on your Facebook profile? Well, you can with the help of a couple handy applications. Whether it be your own music if you're a musician, a shirt you designed, or old junk you have laying around, there's probably an ap...

If you're one of those lucky souls with a mobile plan good enough to actually use the mobile version of YouTube, located at m.youtube.com, on a regular basis, you may have noticed that the site actually doesn't offer all of YouTube's videos, but only...

Google has just unveiled a new feature for AdWords, called demographic bidding. This lets you target your ads in a more specific manner, and see the results of the targeting. The available groups for targeted AdWords are gender and age group, on some...

Back in December we heard of Facebook's initial plans for its Translations application, which turned over portions of the translation process to its users across the globe. Given Facebook's global expansion, having localized and translated versions o...

Microsoft has launched Live Search 地图, the Chinese version of its Live Search Maps page, following in the footsteps of its biggest competitors in that market, Google and Sogou. Not being all that fluent in Chinese, I can only repeat CNET's claims abo...

For users of GreaseMonkey, you have a whole wealth of things you can do to your Facebook account with this handy little extension. But today we're just going to focus on changing up the look of things, clean it up, make it look snazzy: yes, we're goi...

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